. A history of the United States. ould not makea living in England were not well fitted for the hardships ofa new country. Others came, but progress was slow. Thecolonists complained because they were not allowed at firstto hold slaves, like the South Carolinians. They were ham-pered also by the size of the farms, which were too small tobe treated as 1734 some industriousGermans entered the colony,and two years later a bandof Scotch Highlanders. Un-fortunately the colony wassoon troubled by Spanishattacks, especially after Eng-land declared war on Spainfor cruelly treating Engli
. A history of the United States. ould not makea living in England were not well fitted for the hardships ofa new country. Others came, but progress was slow. Thecolonists complained because they were not allowed at firstto hold slaves, like the South Carolinians. They were ham-pered also by the size of the farms, which were too small tobe treated as 1734 some industriousGermans entered the colony,and two years later a bandof Scotch Highlanders. Un-fortunately the colony wassoon troubled by Spanishattacks, especially after Eng-land declared war on Spainfor cruelly treating Englishsailors caught smuggling inthe West Indies. In 1743Oglethorpe returned to Eng-land discouraged. Nineyears later he and his friends gave up their rights in thecolony, which then came directly under control of the small trading station at Augusta, far inland on the SavannahRiver, gave the Georgians a share in the fur trade with theIndians. Georgia remained during the colonial period thesmallest and weakest of the Contemporary Portrait Showing Costume of German man and Woman QUESTIONS 1. How many people were there in the English colonies by 1750? Whatwas the chief way in which New England increased in population after the firstsettlement? What large bodies of emigrants swelled the numbers in the othercolonies? 2. Why did men leave the older settlements for the frontier? What nameis given in American history to the constant movement of settlers toward thefrontier? 3. Why did the Germans, the Scotch, and the Scotch-Irish come to America I20 THE MAKING OF NEW FRONTIERS in the eighteenth centurj? What part had the Newlanders in securingemigrants for /Vmerica? 4. Where did the Germans settle? The Scotch-Irish? 5. Who were the defenders of the frontier from Indian attacks? 6. How could poor boys and girls get to America? What became of theindentured servants when their time was up? 7. How did foreigners become naturalized citizens of the English colonies? 8. What was
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